“You’re going to be flying solo. You okay with that?” — Sergeant Early

Detective Nan Vining is used to being in situations where she has to fly solo. Both professionally as an investigator with the Pasadena Police Department and as a single mother raising a teenage daughter, Vining has reached a point where she’s learned to trust her instincts and go where they take her.

I like to scour public documents for tidbits that might have relevence to Bluffton Today readers. Today that document was a file from the Judicial Merit Selection Commission, a panel of lawmakers that screens candidates for judgeships.

Ashley (Ash) McKenna is a man molded and driven by ideas. As a boy growing up on Staten Island, Ash would sit with his firefighter father in the wee hours of the night listening to the emergency scanner, his dad patiently explaining to him what all the mysterious calls and codes meant.

The caring people of Beaufort County never fail to come together for a good cause, especially when it comes to helping one of their own.

A Bluffton family that has given back to this community over the years is in need of some help. Josh Aragon, who is a Bluffton High School graduate, was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis several years ago and is hoping to join a medical trial that will cost in excess of $175,000 for the evaluation, procedure, travel and accommodations for 10 weeks.